Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 12:04:24 -0600 From: Karl Denninger <karl@Denninger.Net> To: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>, Hallam Oaks <mlnn4@oaks.com.au> Cc: "hackers@FreeBSD.ORG" <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Multi-terabyte disk farm Message-ID: <19981028120424.A23573@Denninger.Net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.02.9810281257020.17054-100000@sasami.jurai.net>; from Matthew N. Dodd on Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 12:59:01PM -0500 References: <199810281034.VAA01075@mail.aussie.org> <Pine.BSF.4.02.9810281257020.17054-100000@sasami.jurai.net>
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Oh balderdash. I do my own drive integration all the time. Its not difficult; you just have to pay attention to the SCSI rules regarding cabling and such. -- -- Karl Denninger (karl@denninger.net) http://www.mcs.net/~karl I ain't even *authorized* to speak for anyone other than myself, so give up now on trying to associate my words with any particular organization. On Wed, Oct 28, 1998 at 12:59:01PM -0500, Matthew N. Dodd wrote: > > If you're using the Kingston stuff I have but one bit of advice for you. > > Do not integrate the drives, enclosures and carriers yourself. > > Subtle and many are the ways you will shoot yourself in the foot > attempting to integrate them yourselves. > > On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Hallam Oaks wrote: > > Thanks for all the advice. At the moment we're looking at a solution > > involving Kingston enclosures and hot-swap trays, hooked up to 56 IBM > > UltraStore 18.2gb HDD's. We'll be running these off two servers using > > double-ended SCSI controllers in much the same way as the tertiary disk > > project does. This gives us 1tb in a single rack ; we add new racks each > > time we need a new terabyte. > > -- > | Matthew N. Dodd | 78 280Z | 75 164E | 84 245DL | FreeBSD/NetBSD/Sprite/VMS | > | winter@jurai.net | This Space For Rent | ix86,sparc,m68k,pmax,vax | > | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | Are you k-rad elite enough for my webpage? | > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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